Five top business editors are on a PRSA/NY panel Tuesday March 15 but it’s at the MSL Group on Hudson st. downtown rather than at Anchin, Block & Anchin in midtown, site of chapter events Dec. 8, 2015 and Jan. 19, 2016. The event is “sold out.” Members pay $60 and non-members, $80.
Chapter officers including Bill Doescher, president, and Henry Feintuch, 2014 president, have been asked to switch the meeting to AB&A, the largest single office CPA firm in the nation with nearly 90 CPAs on staff. Members were told last week via the chapter website that capacity had been reached at MSL.
Doescher said the location of the panel will not be changed. "We are pleased with the excellent venue for tomorrow evening's event," he said. Anchin "does a number of important things for the chapter and we don't want to abuse the privilege," he said in an email.
AB&A has a large conference room with a capacity of well over 100. The firm declined to estimate the total capacity of the room. It hosted the Dec. 8 chapter meeting at which Richard Edelman, Peter Finn and Ed Moed talked about hiring practices and the Jan. 19, 2016 program on omnichannel marketing.
MSL will hold the event in the reception area of its offices. Capacity is about 70 in that area, a staffer said.
The chapter’s website warned last week that “There will be no onsite registration available.”
MSL’s New York offices are at 375 Hudson st. on the West Side, a short distance from the Holland Tunnel.
A possible reason for the switch to MSL is that Mark McClennan, 2016 chair of the national Society, is an MSL employee and holding this important panel could be a way of publicizing MSL. McClennan has refused to answer phone calls or emails of the O’Dwyer Co. Parent Publicis is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. CEO Maurice Levy has been informed of the boycott which has been in force since the early 2000’s.
Feintuch said the chapter was not trying to do any particular favor to MSL in holding the event at its offices.
Program Extolled by Chapter
The program, called “Meet the Business Media,” is for “companies looking to establish themselves as leaders to investors, customers, and other stakeholders.” A placement in an influential business media outlet is “the ultimate coup,” it says. The pitch has to be “just right.” "Join us as we welcome journalists from some of the most prominent business outlets,” it says.
Panelists are:
Crystal Lau, producer, CNBC “Closing Bell.”
Kevin Chupka, producer, Yahoo! Finance
Charisse Jones, business travel, USA Today
John Kell, senior reporter, Fortune
Rubin Ramirez, assignment editor, head of video, TheStreet
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